Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Media Bias

This unsavory relationship between the media and the Democrats has
long existed, but the political career of Barack Obama marks a quantum
leap beyond the media’s traditional liberal preferences and
biases––which in the past had at least a patina of objectivity and
neutrality––to blatant advocacy, double standards, and explicit partisan
hatred.

The roots of media bias go back to the nineteenth century, and
complaints about bias in part reflect a questionable idea about the
media’s role and purpose: that newspapers and other dispensers of public
information exist to transmit objective, factual information gleaned
and communicated by credentialed professionals.

I don't expect them to be biased. I expect them to be honest about their biases.